PMID- 28857460 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20190828 LR - 20190828 IS - 1369-1600 (Electronic) IS - 1355-6215 (Linking) VI - 23 IP - 3 DP - 2018 May TI - Working memory and salivary brain-derived neurotrophic factor as developmental predictors of cocaine seeking in male and female rats. PG - 868-879 LID - 10.1111/adb.12535 [doi] AB - Poor working memory is linked to future risk-taking behaviors. Lifelong risk of habitual drug use is highest in individuals who initiate use in early adolescence. We sought to determine in rats whether juvenile traits, specifically poor working memory and low salivary brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), are related to elevated cocaine taking and relapse in adolescence and adulthood. On postnatal day (P) 20, working memory was assessed using the novel object recognition task in male and female rats. Saliva was assayed at P20 for BDNF before cocaine self-administration on P28 [0.75 or 0.25 mg/kg/infusion for 30 days under a fixed-ratio (FR) 1 to FR5 schedule] and on P94 before relapse after 30-day abstinence in adulthood. A separate cohort of P28 male rats was assayed for object discrimination and BDNF in saliva and the medial prefrontal cortex and dorsolateral striatum. Novel object discrimination correlated positively with salivary BDNF on P20 and dorsolateral striatum levels, but negatively with medial prefrontal cortex BDNF in male rats. In female rats, P20 salivary BDNF negatively correlated with object discrimination. Salivary BDNF positively correlated across age in male rats. Male rats earned more cocaine (0.75 mg/kg) at FR5 and responded more at relapse than did female rats. These elevated relapse rates in male rats were significantly associated with P20 object discrimination and salivary BDNF. Relapse after 0.75 and 0.25 mg/kg in female rats correlated only with object discrimination. In conclusion, poor working memory and low salivary BDNF in juvenile male rats may represent biomarkers for later cocaine use. Further research is needed to identify biomarkers for risk in male rats. CI - (c) 2017 Society for the Study of Addiction. FAU - Jordan, Chloe J AU - Jordan CJ AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-1843-227X AD - Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA. FAU - Andersen, Susan L AU - Andersen SL AD - Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA. LA - eng PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20170831 PL - United States TA - Addict Biol JT - Addiction biology JID - 9604935 RN - 0 (Bdnf protein, rat) RN - 0 (Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor) RN - 0 (Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors) RN - I5Y540LHVR (Cocaine) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Behavior, Animal MH - Brain/*metabolism MH - Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor/*metabolism MH - Cocaine/*administration & dosage MH - Corpus Striatum/metabolism MH - Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors/*administration & dosage MH - *Drug-Seeking Behavior MH - Female MH - Male MH - *Memory, Short-Term MH - Prefrontal Cortex/metabolism MH - Rats MH - Rats, Sprague-Dawley MH - Risk Assessment MH - Saliva/chemistry MH - Self Administration MH - Sex Factors OTO - NOTNLM OT - adolescence OT - brain-derived neurotrophic factor OT - cocaine self-administration OT - saliva OT - sex differences OT - working memory EDAT- 2017/09/01 06:00 MHDA- 2019/08/29 06:00 CRDT- 2017/09/01 06:00 PHST- 2017/01/04 00:00 [received] PHST- 2017/05/02 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2017/06/12 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2017/09/01 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2019/08/29 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2017/09/01 06:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1111/adb.12535 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Addict Biol. 2018 May;23(3):868-879. doi: 10.1111/adb.12535. Epub 2017 Aug 31.